Andi had something else on her mind at the aquarium: total panic about Todd and her big lie. I doubt she registered much about Pohl. And since then, she’s been well and truly caught in the denial-field.

I thought it was only canni-balism if they came in metal tins? And shouldn’t it be caRnibalism, cause carni- fr. Latin for Meat. I mean if you’re eating People, because:
People,
People who eat people,
Are the hungriest people innnnnnn the World.

One person,
One very well done person,
Just haunch now, for lunch,…
(I’ll stop now)

“Cannibal” doesn’t come from Latin. It comes from Spanish, and derives from a variant of “Caribes” — the same root word that gives us “Caribbean”. (Columbus claims that one of the peoples he met there ate human flesh. If only they’d eaten him…)

See, meeting you here, I learn all sorts of fun facts. But that still doesn’t address the people in cans part. If it wasn’t for Chris Columbus, European kings and queens would probably still Not know what a really fine emerald looks like, and be paying for greenish topaz from the Mediterranean at emerald prices. And all that gold that came to Spain stolen from the Incas. All those crosses worn by the bishops,… You know the cross– symbol of the Universe divided into active a nd passive principals, …

This really seems like something that Todd should have spoken to Mr. Agent before doing. At the very least he might have gotten some tips on breaking the news, or may have gotten a government man to do the talking for him.

That would put Agent Brown in a very difficult position. Common sense says Andi really has to be told. Now! She should have been brought into the picture some time ago. Government security rules say, “Hell no, without a security clearance she doesn’t get to hear one syllable.”

I would bet that the beam in the sky didn’t budge government security rules about the Sarnothi one bit — these things don’t ever change that fast. They’re still going to try to keep Sarnothi existence a deep dark secret. And Andi isn’t going to look like a good candidate for a security clearance. Artist? What, a tattoo artist??

No, this is a family thing. Andi is family. She’s dealing with Selkie regularly. She needs to be brought into the picture for the same reason Mari and Theo did: Selkie’s safety.

And a weird random fact that I know: Technically, cannibalism isn’t actually illegal. *Obtaining* the meat is usually illegal (murder, assault with a deadly weapon, desecration of a corpse, etc), but actual consumption is not.

I learned this after reading a news story about guy who, for whatever reason, had some muscle from his abdomen surgically removed so that he could eat it.

anthro refers to human. and with regards to sentientophagy doesn’t work Sentient covers anything with feelings. perhaps Spaiophagy. Anything that can Reason (dogs cats cows have emotion but they cannot reason)

You know, for an animal that cannot reason, trying to keep a Raccoon out of an enclosure that it wants into, ‘cannot reason’ doesn’t make a strong case for itself. Dogs are too easily (Ball!) distracted from (Squirrel!) … What was I saying? OOOOoow what’s that smell?
And Cats are too ‘test? Why would I want to take a test?’ to test for reason.